PDF: Details on officer involved shootings

Police have scheduled a 10 a.m. news briefing to discuss the officer-involved shooting death Wednesday on Aurora Avenue North.

We’ll have an update here shortly after the event concludes.

Seattle has had only one homicide this year — the shooting death at Chop Suey of 24-year-old hip-hop artist Joseph Ryan. Read more on that case here.

But this time last year, Seattle had two shootings — both gang related, according to police. Both are still unsolved. Follow this link for more details.

Murphy

Wednesday’s incident was the second officer-involved shooting in 2009. On New Year’s Day, Miles Murphy was shot by police after he failed to follow a command to drop a rifle with a bayonet. Police said he was shot when he moved forward toward them.

Click here to download a PDF of the incident report, redacted by police.

Miles Murphy’s World War II-vintage rifle was seized by police for safekeeping for two months in 2006. (Seattle Police Department photo)